Translations of Homer: The OdysseyMethuen, 1967 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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Page 141
... Simile that Homer has inserted in the Odyssey ; but I cannot think it proceeded from a barrenness of invention , or thro ' phlegm in the declension of his years , as some have imagin'd . The nature of the Poem requires a difference of ...
... Simile that Homer has inserted in the Odyssey ; but I cannot think it proceeded from a barrenness of invention , or thro ' phlegm in the declension of his years , as some have imagin'd . The nature of the Poem requires a difference of ...
Page 384
... simile , judices , non fuit . It must be con- fess'd , that the sense is not only darken'd , but the ear shock'd at the repetition of the same word in the same period . This is a very pregnant instance , that the opinion of an evil ...
... simile , judices , non fuit . It must be con- fess'd , that the sense is not only darken'd , but the ear shock'd at the repetition of the same word in the same period . This is a very pregnant instance , that the opinion of an evil ...
Page 456
... simile in Homer of the Bat or Bird of night NUKTɛpís , which is introduc'd to repre- sent Ulysses clinging round the Fig - tree . ' Tis true the whole three are taken from low subjects , but they very well paint the thing they were ...
... simile in Homer of the Bat or Bird of night NUKTɛpís , which is introduc'd to repre- sent Ulysses clinging round the Fig - tree . ' Tis true the whole three are taken from low subjects , but they very well paint the thing they were ...
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Telemachus and Penelope Ulysses among | 36 |
Juno deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus | 156 |
The Fight of Ulysses and Irus | 166 |
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Achilles Action Alcinous Ancients appears arms attend bear beauty beginning calls Calypso cause character chief consequently Dacier death deep descends divine Eustathius expression eyes Fable fate father feast gives Goddess Gods Greeks ground hand happy heav'n Heroe Homer honour Iliad Island Ithaca Jove kind King land manner mean Menelaus mind Minerva nature necessary Nestor never night o'er objection observes Odyssey opinion passage Penelope person Poem Poet Poetry pow'r Prince probable Queen race Reader reason relation remarkable rest rise royal says shade shews shore soul speaks story sufferings Suitors tears Telemachus tells thee thing thou thought thro train Troy true truth Ulysses verse vessel Virgil voyage whole winds wine wisdom wise woes youth